The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-01
BRIEF JoTTlNcs

1t is 1887 now.
A Happy New Year to all of the readers
Of the PRESS,
A heavy snow storm set in at noon yester-
day and the mercury rose perceptibly.
Ancient Brothers Lodge will visit Pre-
sumpscot Lodge Of Yarmouth soon.
The weather moderated quite rapidly last
evening. The snow changed to hail
w. l.. Wilson & Co. have just received a
stock of the non-alcoholic Lactart Cham
payne.
The new Board of County Commissioners
will meet today but will not organize proba-
bly, before the first of next week.
The January meeting of the Diet Mission
win be postponed until the second SATURDAY
of January.
Chambers orchestra played for an Odd
Fellows concert and ball at North Anson
last night.
b. A. Atkinson & Co. furnished the dance
orders for the Locomotive Firemen's bal, for
which the Brotherhood have extended
vote Of thanks.
Today being legal holiday the govern
ment offices will be open at the usual holiday
hours, while other public buildings, banks,
etc, will be closed
The petition of f. Southworth for sta
tionary steam engine will be heard by the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen next Monday
evening.
The Western Union and Baltimore and
Ohio messenger boys will present addresses
to the merchants who are in the habit of re-
curing their services, today.
There will be an excursion from the 70.
nebec towns on the Maine Cen, Poilroad
next Thursday to t .t..s city to try Burnham's
toboggan's,,,,a e - ~ : ~ 'i'''" ?
he gross receipts of the post Office at Sac
carappa for the past year were S2,14772;
the total expenses, $1,1OO; net revenue, ST.
047.62.
The bookkeeper and employees of E. NJ.
Steadman & Co. have presented Mr.. Stead
man with an Office chair as a New Years
gift.
Capt. James Blake of Knightyille, has
been selected to appear before the legislative
committee on woman suffrage, to urge their
rights.
Many New Years Eve dances were held
last night and the old year danced out and
the new once danced in. Several watch
meetings were also held
The letter carriers win gratefully receive
any tokens of remembrance from their pa
irons on their routes today that they may
deem fit to bestow. Their labors are oner-
Gus. their pay small.
The Montgomery Guards will have sup
per and dance at the Falmouth Hotel Janu-
airy 18th, and the High School class of 81
will hold their reunion and supper there Jan
uary 18th.
Hon. w. w. Thomas, Jr., will give his new
lecture on Sweden, at Town Hall, Cape
Elizabeth, on Tuesday evening, January IL.
for the benefit of the High school, If stormy
postponed till Wednesday evening follow
ing.
Steamer Cumberland, of the International
Line, arrived here from PASSPORT at O'Clock
yesterday morning. and lay at her wharf,
not deeming it prudent to proceed to Boston
owing to the storm. The State of Maine re-
mains in Boston.
The subscription books on the two articles
sold by Owen, Moore & Co. for the Orphan
Asylum were closed yesterday. Mr.. Frank
H. Goudy, Avon street, secured the horses,
while the french doll house goes to Margu-
rite Rumery Of Danforth street.
There was still alarm last evening from
the house of Mr.. Noble, on Congress street,
just above Washington street The fire
caught in the attic from defective chimney
and was extinguished by Portland Two's
men with slight damage to the house.
Samuel Woodside, who has been with Ken
dali & Whitney for the past 81 yearsi sever
ed his connection with them yesterday, and
will assume the management of Boston
firms business in this State. His family
will remain for the present at Knightville,
Cape Elizabeth.
G. S. Neil, Passport; A. S. Ranney, Con-
cord, N. H.; f. w. Harris, New York; C. B.
Wilbur, c. II. Adair, E. H. Downing, Y. A.
Bartlett, and Jason Giles, Boston; A. F.
Richardson, Fryeburg; j. H. Marley, Au-
gusta; were among the guests at the Fal-
mouth Hotel yesterday
The Washington Evening Star says: 1.-THE
Century Company of New York have kindly
lent to the Children's Christmas Club the
electrotype plates containing both the illus
trations and the reading matter of Miss Sar-
gents story of the first Children's Christ
mas Club at Portland. Me-, on Innocents'
Day, 1888. One thousand copies of this
article, with proper local additions, will be
printed without expense to the club here for
free distribution among its members